Automatic style-checking with Strunk and White’s rules

By Mason Simon

I read The Elements of Style by Strunk and White to get better at writing. The biggest section is on common misuses of words and expressions in English. I thought the section was valuable, but more than I’d be able to keep in my head while writing. To solve that problem, I made a script that analyzes some given text and then annotates each potential misuse with a link to Strunk’s guidance.